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Good morning, and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. A little bit of escapism is needed for today, I think.
Let’s see some hunks.
Mike Rowe. One man trying to change things for the better, and I have a lot of respect for that.
Alexander Skarsgård
Hugh Jackman
I need a boat drink.
Wish I could have found a larger version of this pic.
And a star from Bollywood whose name I didn’t save, sorry.
That oughta do it. Thank you for your attention, and y’all have a good day.

Some new report demonizing Tony Blair for getting the UK into the Iraq War is out today. The npr commentators were breathless in their descriptions of its contents. I think they’re still smarting from their Brexit loss and needed some cheer. Nothing is a coincidence with these flockers.

Same as Comey tearing up the constitution yesterday. “Obama the first president to campaign with a candidate under investigation by the FBI” read a satirical article yesterday morning. Huh, whattya know! Comey does his thing and BINGO! Hillary exonerated! Time to move on to her inevitable victory.

Hip is about 98% recovered. I’m very glad to bee off of the Celebrex. Weight is holding steady. I need to lose another fiddy but haven’t ramped up my mental toughness yet to get there. I have too many friends who like to drink beer in the summer. At least that’s the excuse I’m going with today.

Lovely dinner party last night with four friends. First time since the kitchen was finished and new wood floors in dining room and living room. We ate inside because it was too hot and muggy on the deck.

I doubt I’m going to be the only one putting in my notice. I’m one of the workhorses – I work a LOT of hours, am dependable, don’t ask off much time. This is complete and utter bullshit. If she wants a staff of unreliable 20-somethings, this is the way to do it.

I wouldn’t burn any bridges when you quit. Give them your two-weeks notice and explain why you’re quitting, but you never know when pissing off your former employer could come back to bite you in the ass.

I would submit my resignation effective when vacation starts and due to this “policy” change. This will require them to hire and train or they could change the policy and do their job. Either way you will have behaved in a professional manner.

Its one thing to have a employee find coverage for a single shift, its entirely another to expect them to do it for a extended period of time.

I got the pork butt up to 203º. It took about 10 hours with the smoker at 250º. Used two serving forks to pull it. At 203º it’s too hot to do it by hand. An 8# butt turned into about 5# of pulled pork.

I like Paul Ryan but I kind of wish he would go away. And he’s so typical…’I’ll never accept the position of SoH.’

5 mins later…

‘I’ve consulted with my ego and it looks like I’m the only person that can do the job. Please make no mistake–this is sheer coincidence–I’ll also begin blow job lessons tomorrow. We’re brought in a professional–a Miss Lewinsky–to properly train me, at tax payer expense, of course.’

I just saw my little 17 year old next door neighbor driving her $80k Mercedes Benz suv down the srreet with her long blond hair stacked up on her head and her fancy sun glasses. It occurred to me that slutpuppy is one of the better compound words ever invented.

Seriously, what self respecting mother would let her kid wear a pair of sweats with Juicy on the butt?

“Yes, I’d like you to meet my daughter, Malia. She’s an intern for the TV show, “GIRLS.” Her first day was the episode in which character (whatever) was getting her salad tossed by one of the male characters. Cannot tell you how proud we are.”

Doesn’t RI have like the highest percentage per capita of mobsters? I think that’s one of their claims to fame. Worked a teamster strike there in 94, couldn’t rely on local cops, only the Staties. Only place where we ever got overrun (for about 30 seconds). I lost 3 cars to vandalism (with me in them) in 1 week……good times….not. Place was a shit hole then. I’m sure it’s muuuuuuuch better now.

My older brothers rebound shackup after his first failed marriage was from Rhode Island. She was fookin Portuguese but she had a German last name from her first failed marriage. Evidently she really liked to drink heavily and fuck alot. That’s about all my brother cared about back in those days.

I got nuthin’ else to add…..just trying to help the conversation along.

I got nothing against the Portuguese as an ethnic subset of your basic European immigrants. Just noting that she was a fookin Portagee. Her name was Bernie but she pronounced it Buhanie……or at least that’s as close as I can get. She never called my brother by his name when she was talking to me. He was always, “yuah fookin brutha.” My brother went to detox shortly after she kicked him out of his own house, and has been dry ever since. I’d guess she’s dead by now if she didn’t quit as well.

I said more than 20 years ago (probably stolen from someone else) that Hillary could eat a puppy on live TV while taking a bribe from a KKKlansman, and there would still be someone saying how wonderful she is.

This lady used to babysit my daughters twenty years ago when she was a teenager. She was set to be the valedictorian of her class but eloped with a sailor and moved to Norfolk VA right before her senior year. She’s since divorced, moved back to TX and seems to be rebounding well in the specialty cookie business. She was on HSN hawking her line of cookie cutters and cookie decorating equipment today.

Hi tools and towelettes. Well, I was sort of kind of getting past wanting to commit seppuku when I turned on the TV and found that, HILLARY!! BECAUSE VAGINA!! decided to buy ALL of the commercial time for the next 3 hours.

And if anyone in my presence says, “Hillary was a great SoS,” I gar-un-damn-tee–u I will lose what’s left of my mind.

Trump says that we shouldn’t have removed Saddam, and Hillary!’s campaign attacks him for it. So apparently she agrees with the war to remove him from power? Does she think she could have handled the occupation better, or does she think that we should have put another brutal dictator in Saddam’s place?

I channeled my inner Scottw tonight when I investigated my AC that was running warm. It turns out it had a dust filter and there was the equivalent of a dog in it. I cleaned it best I could and will test it tonight. I can’t imagine it won’t help.

Must be AC day. I got home about 530 and thought “Sure feels kinda warm in here.” Yup, warmer than we keep it. “Ah shit.” Head out to the garage. Yup, clogged drain line caused water to back up and shut down the unit.

You know how you hate going to the mailbox and picking up those envelopes with windows?
How you know that every one is a bill?
Not today, mofos!
Today is dividend-check day!

Today is the day that I get payback for rat-holing 7-10% of every dime I made since 8-Jan-’69.
Not that today is that special, it’s just a sign.

Yeah, we were really poor in those days, but we both grew-up poor, so we were used to ramen, mac&cheese, and a slice of bologna on white bread without cheese.
Here we are at near the end of our lives, preparing our wills(Thanks, BiW!), and we have to face the fact that we are not poor!

We never checked on it before, never paid attention, lived the same way we always did, as if we were poor.
We never totaled all the CDs, Funds, Annuities, Stocks(Microsoft Amgen), and Bonds.

We got together with BiW to get all this shit settled and found out that we are not poor!
I’ve never felt this way before. I’m 67 years old and have been poor all my life.

I don’t know how to deal with this.

I drive a ’94 Lesbaru. I could be driving a new F-150, or a Porsche(once upon a time, I drove a ’69 Targa 911, two Lotus, and a BMW when I worked in tall buildings, wrote code, and made money).

I find this very strange, yet I have no inclination to change my life.
No inclination to buy a new car, a new house, buy a “fifth-wheel”, and explore the country, nothing.

I’m just pondering this as I drink myself to sleep and realize that tomorrow will be just the same as today, yesterday, and the day before as I don’t know how to do anything different.
My baby sister will be baffled as to what to do with what we leave her…
nytol

ChrisP, my in-laws were so frugal, Mr. RFH and I were making plans to step in if there was a financial emergency. I brought my own toilet paper when we visited because MIL bought cheap, cheap stuff. They were loaded and just living off Social Security. I wish they had enjoyed themselves a little more.